The 2024 all-electric Dodge Charger debuts with muscle automobile donuts, drifts and even a Hellcat rumble

Stellantis launched Tuesday two all-electric variations of the Dodge Charger filled with the type of options muscle automobile followers have come to count on — proper all the way down to a system that tries to imitate the rumble of a Hemi V-8 engine.

The 2 new Dodge Charger EV coupes — the 2024 Charger Daytona Scat Pack and the milder Daytona R/T trim — are scheduled to enter manufacturing in mid-2024. Manufacturing of four-door variations begins within the first quarter of 2025. The automaker didn’t launch pricing data for any of the automobiles.

Collectively, these next-generation Dodge Charger coupes are a part of mum or dad firm Stellantis’ strategic plan to chop its international carbon footprint by 50% by 2030 and obtain net-zero carbon emissions by 2038. That plan additionally consists of some lofty monetary targets as nicely, together with doubling web revenues to $335 billion a 12 months by 2030 and sustaining double-digit revenue margins.

The Dodge Charger, together with different EVs within the Stellantis portfolio such because the Fiat 500e and the upcoming Ram Ramcharger and Ram 1500 Revolution EV, are all necessary cogs within the automaker’s strategic plan.

Dodge, maybe aiming to appease its core buyer base, isn’t abandoning gas-powered muscle vehicles altogether. The model mentioned the next-generation Charger may also be provided with inner combustion engines. These is not going to be powered by a Hemi V-8, nevertheless. The automaker is as an alternative utilizing a extra environment friendly and cleaner burning 3-liter twin-turbo Hurricane inline-six engines that Dodge model chief govt officer Tim Kuniskis says affords extra energy and torque than the outgoing 5.7 and 6.4-liter Hemi engines.

Gasoline-powered two-door and four-door Dodge Charger automobiles are additionally scheduled to start manufacturing within the first quarter of 2025. Your complete lineup, together with the battery electrical variations, might be assembled on the firm’s manufacturing facility in Windsor, Canada.

The 2024 Dodge Charger launch comes at a precarious time for U.S. and European automakers making an attempt to navigate an ever-changing EV panorama, the place Chinese language producers proceed to realize floor. At the same time as EV market share has expanded, automakers have paused or downsized manufacturing facility buildouts for EV meeting or battery manufacturing amid softening demand — notably for larger priced luxurious EVs.

However Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares informed TechCrunch in an interview final month that the automaker shouldn’t be following its opponents’ lead and as an alternative goes “flat out” on EVs.

“I’m keeping it flat out. Flat out on the EVs for several reasons,” Tavares mentioned, including that the corporate shouldn’t be turning its again on gas-powered automobiles both. Tavares mentioned he’s future-proofing the corporate to organize for both end in upcoming political races in Europe and the US that contain dogmatic and populist candidates who’ve threatened to roll again pro-environmental rules and incentives.

“Thanks to the 2030 strategic plan, I have the leisure and the privilege of not having to bet on what these elections results will be,” he added. “I can wait until the end of ’24; then I will decide whether to move more capacity, invest in the capacity or not invest, based on an acceleration that will be driven by a dogmatic scenario or based on the slowdown that could be driven by the populist scenario. So that’s why we keep it flat out.”

EV nuts and bolts

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The 2024 Charger Daytona Scat Pack and Daytona R/T trim will come customary with all-wheel drive and a 100.5 kilowatt-hour battery pack. From right here, the shopper might want to prioritize pace and torque or vary.

The 2024 Charger Daytona Scat Pack will ship 670 horsepower, be capable to speed up from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.3 seconds, run a quarter-mile in an estimated 11.5 seconds and attain a prime pace of 134 mph. That energy and acceleration comes with a commerce off; the Scat Pack’s estimated vary is 260 miles.

In the meantime, the Daytona R/T trim will produce 496-horsepower, journey 0 to 60 mph in a barely slower 4.7 seconds, however with an extended estimated vary of 317 miles.

Each EVs include a Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust ajargony branded time period that describes a system Dodge created to ship sound by way of an amplifier and tuning chamber in an effort to imitate the enduring growl of a Hemi V-8 engine.

The 2 trims diverge as soon as drifting, donuts, monitor and drag driving modes come into play. These driving modes, which can be found within the Scat Pack trim, carry out like they sound. Monitor mode is designed to ship most automobile efficiency on clean, dry surfaces, whereas drag mode is supposed to be used on an enclosed dragstrip for launch and straight-line acceleration. Donut and drift modes permit the automobile to float — drivers can choose three ranges of slip angle — and  spin solely the rear wheels and to rotate round both of the entrance wheels with out intervention from the traction management system to attain the proper donut.